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Title	The grammar of ornament
Description	Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Maroon pebble-grain cloth. On the front and back covers the outer border consists of an outer thick and an inner thin rectangular fillet, blocked in blind. On the front cover a Chinese fret is blocked in gold to form the central rectangle. The title: `\| THE GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT \|' is blocked in gold near the head, within a rectangle formed by a single gold fillet. A single gold fillet is blocked on the inner borders. Inside this, another fillet, blocked on the head and on the sides, forms straps on the upper inner corners. A dense leaf and stem pattern is blocked near the tail. Out of this pattern, three long papyrus stems rise, forming three flowers. The back cover is blocked identically in blind. The spine has ten sets of horizontal double fillets blocked in gold, each comprising one thick and one thin fillet, alternating between thick and thin uppermost. From the head of the spine down, between the third and fourth double fillet, the words '\| GRAMMAR \| O
Author	Jones, Owen, 1809-1874
Publisher of Original	Day and Son, Limited
Place of Publication	London, England
Date Original	1856
Printer	Day and Son, Limited
Illustrator	Bedford, Francis, 1816-1894 Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823-1875 Westwood, J.O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877
Measurements	230 x 340 x 45 mm.
Call number	PEATTIE NO.33
Material	Pebble grain Book cloth
Technique	Gilding Beveling Gold blocking Blind blocking
Style/Period	19th century
Subject	Bookbinding--England--19th century--Specimens
Design element	Chinese frets Rectangles Strapwork Plant-derived motifs Stems Leaves Papyrus (The plant) Frets (patterns) Fillets (Bookbinding) Floral patterns
Coverage-Geographic	Europe--Great Britain--England
Resource Type	Binding
Source	Print original in the Roger and Marlene Peattie Collection
Type	Still Image
Format	Image/jpeg
Current repository	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries
Collection	Decorative Nineteenth Century Trade Bindings
Bibliographic record	http://info.library.mun.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?user_id=REMOTEWEB&searchdata1=ocm03626195{001}
Digital Date	2005
CONTENTdm file name	218.cpd